约翰·欧文(John Irving),被美国文坛泰斗冯内古特喻为“美国最重要的幽默作家”,是当代最知名的小说家之一,他作品中所呈现的高超的说故事技巧与优美的文学性,使人们常将他与狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量级小说家相提并论。他的小说不仅赢得书评界的一致推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是西方最畅销的小说家之一。
发表于2025-03-10
The Hotel New Hampshire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” “Keep passing the open windows.” “You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.” “Safer than we are.” I tol...
评分一本独特的小说,牵扯一大串的人,事,而且糟糕的事(却没有坏人的故事),占了大部分,看了一大半才隐约的明白了“继续走过打开的窗口...”这句话的意思。我们生存的这个世界,就是那么让人无奈,不幸总是伴随着幸运发生,一转眼又像乌云般散去。根本没时间去想,或悔恨,该认...
评分约翰·欧文的小说很好看。这种好看是指,任何人,只要拿起他的书,都可以如着魔般读下去。不同于西方的现代派或后现代主义作家,这位狄更斯的推崇者依旧秉持着自十九世纪(抑或更早)以来的文学传统,即“说故事的人”。基于这个原则,看欧文的小说几乎不需要任何门槛,你不需...
评分如果给一个爱情故事里加一头熊,一头真的熊,你觉得怎么样? 19岁的男孩和女孩高三毕业,夏季在一家豪华旅馆打零工,那是1939年。有一个维也纳来的犹太人,名叫弗洛伊德,带着他的熊在这家旅馆表演。 “父亲和母亲眼睁睁看着那头熊跳起舞来……母亲感到父亲握住她的手……” “...
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"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
"Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."
--Time
"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."
--Cosmopolitan
The Hotel New Hampshire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书